It's an age-old story: boy meets boy.
Charged glances catch across a crowded room. Fingers gently graze against a shared water bottle.
What begins as a series of secret trysts swells over a decade into fervent, undeniable love. Ginger ales and tuna melts are had. A cottage becomes a home.
These have become deeply familiar references as there's not a recess of the Internet - and most of the world - that hasn't ravenously consumed the queer romance between elite hockey stars Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov in Heated Rivalry.
When Anna, a self-described "Heated Rivalry obsessive", watched the show it reminded her of a world she already knew - the Chinese male-male romance stories she had grown up reading.
